AT&T explores ways to offload DirecTV, report says
Saddled with debt from its acquisitions of DirecTV and Time Warner, telecom giant AT&T is looking at new ways to offload one of those two properties.
DirecTV
DirecTV is a pay television company that offers video services over satellite and through the Internet. The company is majority owned by AT&T, with private equity firm TPG Capital assuming a minority stake. DirecTV operates the flagship satellite service along with DirecTV via Internet and DirecTV Stream, its streaming video products.
DirecTV adds support for Disney-backed licensing consortium Movies Anywhere
DirecTV has announced support for Movies Anywhere, a content licensing consortium that allows customers to watch purchased movies across different devices.
AT&T will ease marketing of DirecTV outside rural areas, executive says
AT&T will ease marketing initiatives for its satellite television platform DirecTV to most customers, with limited exceptions, a company executive said this week.
AT&T executive reiterates company’s desire to sell DirecTV
An AT&T executive reiterated his company’s desire to offload satellite pay TV service DirecTV less than five years after the telecommunications giant acquired the service.
Dish chairman: Merger with DirecTV “probably inevitable”
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Hearst pulls channels from DirecTV, AT&T as negotiations continue
Local stations in as many as three dozens communities have been dropped from AT&T-owned pay TV platforms, including DirecTV.
DirecTV, AT&T TV to lose Hearst stations on Thursday
Dozens of local broadcast stations owned by Hearst Television will be pulled from pay TV systems owned by AT&T on Thursday.
Nexstar channels go dark on DirecTV, AT&T U-Verse
The blackout impacts KRON-TV in San Francisco as well as channels in Bakersfield and Fresno.